Material Restraint: Three Is Enough

A space with extremely few building materials. The entire shell consists of only three materials: white mineral paint walls, light gray cement flooring, and light brown solid wood for parts of the ceiling and built-in furniture. There are no tiles, no stone, no metal decorations, no wallpaper. Because the building materials are few and quiet, the objects placed within—art, pottery, textiles, books, plants—have enough stage to be seen. In one corner of the image, the same space is shown for comparison using six building materials: marble, wood-grain tiles, metal panels, mirrors, wallpaper, and a decorative ceiling, resulting in all objects being overwhelmed. Avoid: making the two versions similar, adding a fourth building material to the correct version, reducing the number of objects, using high-chroma colors.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個建築材料極少的空間。整個殼體只有三種材料:白色的礦物塗料牆、淺灰的水泥地坪、以及淺褐的實木做為天花的局部與內建家具。沒有磁磚、沒有石材、沒有金屬裝飾、沒有壁紙。因為建築的材料種類少而安靜,放進去的物件——藝術品、陶器、織品、書、植物——才有足夠的舞台被看見。畫面一角以使用六種建築材料的相同空間作對照:大理石、木紋磚、金屬板、鏡面、壁紙、造型天花,結果物件全部被淹沒。避免:讓兩者相似、在正確版本加入第四種建築材料、減少物件的數量、使用高彩度的顏色。